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First drafts: Band names

I saw this on Facebook recently:

I suggested a few possibilities and asked people to name their own and had hundreds of replies. Some of these did not exactly follow the concept, and instead just used synonyms or otherwise changed a band’s name to make it funnier.

So let’s rebrand this. Instead, let’s call it “Band names: First drafts.” Here are my favorite suggestions in no particular order (except my entries first because it’s my blog):

Michael A. Ventrella:

They Probably Aren’t Giants

Slight Disturbance at the Disco

Completely Clothed Ladies

Foo Negotiators

Frank Zappa and the Brothers-in-Law of Invention

The Wilburys Who Stay at Home

Brunettey

Prince and the Peaceful Protest

QQ Top

Affirmative

The Foreplay Pistols

Derek and the Mahjong Tiles

Diana Ross and the Appellate Judges

Aerojones

Run-DMV

Battery-Operated Light Orchestra

Huey Lewis and the Fake News

Doubt

Adams Airplane

Terri Lynn Coop:

Bruce Springsteen and Some Band From Down the Street

KC and the Clear with a High of 74 Band

Trans-Sheybogen Orchestra

Mary Bacon:

The Grateful Only-Mostly-Dead

Gerald Blackwell:

The Stop-Stops

David Gerrold:

Bear-Naked Laddies

Crimson Thing

Steve Vaughan:

The Happy Blues

Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Flats

Sort of Whitish-Red Floyd

Lauretta Nagel:

Earth, Wind and Mudslide

Puce Floyd

Creedence Dishwater Revival

Beth Waggoner Patterson:

Yeah

Nuns With Attitude

Thing Crimson

Herman’s Introverts

Douglas Waltman:

Disappointment with the Machine

James Ryan:

Frankie Goes to Atwater Village

Mickey Blake:

Tears for Mild Anxieties

Prime Ministers of Canada

Farber Burny:

10,000 Mildly Disturbed People

Normal Al Yankovich

Drew Bittner:

AC/District of Columbia

Super Girl-With-an-Undeserved-Bad-Reputation

Billy Flynn:

Judas Altar Boy

Wimpy Wimpy Employeetones

Jay Pennington:

Tom Petty and the Let Them Down Easys

Molly Pocketknife

Led Balloon

Gladys Knight and the Peeps

Black Shabbat

Guns N’ Noses

Deep Beige

Pearl Jelly

Blue Cläm Cult

Spin Internists

Ken Warren:

The Mall Cops

Randy Eberle:

Aluminum Maiden

Ryk Spoor:

Snoop Puppy

The Ensign and Tenille

Savannah Luther:

Three Inch Nails

Florence and the Lever

John Herring:

One Dog Night

Thirty-cent

Wu-Tang Relatives

The Whom

Sharon Lyn Terrill:

Start a Letter Writing Campaign to the Machine

Jane’s 3AM Trip to Denny’s

Mark Davis:

Resident Dre

Slightly Disheveled Crue

Kevin Gould:

The Guess What

David Edward Martin:

Evanston

Steven Morgenlender:

The Aunts and Uncles

Chris Meadows:

Hurry

Indignant Girls

Raymond Lawson:

Spice Rack Girls

Lee Hester:

The Credible String Band

LEM (Lazy Eye Movement)

Charles Rowe:

Jefferson Paper Plane

Michael Engler:

Me3

Broccolirama

Jason Harris Vichinsky:

Slingshots and Roses

Manny Borges:

Sedan Halen

Alice in Jeans

Rich Weiss:

Old Farts on the Block

I’ll be doing other “first draft” challenges on Facebook to later post here; I think this could be fun. Suggestions are welcome.

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